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Spagna
Méndez de Vigo asegura que se investigará a los evasores fiscales
El ministro de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y portavoz del Gobierno, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, alabó ayer "el trabajo eficaz y de profesionalidad" que está llevando a cabo la Agencia Tributaria a la hora de investigar a varios futbolistas por presunto fraude fiscal. El titular de la cartera de ...
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Francia
IMF chief Lagarde on trial in France
PARIS - IMF chief Christine Lagarde goes on trial in France on Monday over a massive state payout to a flamboyant tycoon when she was finance minister in a case that risks tarnishing her stellar career.
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USA Giappone
Japan’s leadership vital for success of TPP
Despite the Diet’s approval Friday of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12-nation free trade agreement is unlikely to come into force as it currently stands given U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to pull the United States out of it once he takes office in January. Some scholars have suggested that if ...
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Giappone
Trump to tap Goldman chief Cohn as head of National Economic Council
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely ask a senior Goldman Sachs banker to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning again to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world’s largest economy, a transition official said on Friday. Trump’s pick of Goldman President Gary Cohn, 56, to head the White ...
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Cina Giappone
Trump packing trade team with veterans of steel wars with China
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry’s battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports. Led by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire steel investor and Trump’s nominee ...
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Giappone
U.S. government trying to accelerate Takata air bag recalls amid concern over pace
The U.S. government is trying to get automakers to move faster to fix 42 million vehicles that are being recalled because of potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators. Expressing renewed concern about the pace of the recall, which is the largest ever for the U.S. auto industry, officials from the ...
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Nigeria
We’ll turn back 570,000 tons of rice waiting to arrive for Christmas –Ogbeh
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, speaks on a broad range of issues in the sector affecting the Nigerian economy in this interview with Okechukwu Nnodim There is apprehension of looming famine in Nigeria. What is the government doing about this? We want to put it ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria’s infrastructural development laws outdated – Experts
Jesusegun Alagbe Experts have faulted the legal framework guiding infrastructure development in the country. Speaking at the closing of a two-day colloquium organised by the Centre for Ethics and Sustainable Development held at the University of Lagos on Friday, they argued that for Public-Private Partnership to work for infrastructure delivery ...
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Nigeria
CBN asks banks to rescue the economy
Stanley Opara The Central Bank of Nigeria has charged Deposit Money Banks in the country to work towards salvaging the distressed economy as the role of returning it to normalcy remains their responsibility owing to their financial intermediation activities that cut across all sectors. Aside the intervention policies of the ...
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Nigeria Regno Unito
Geospatial technology’ll grow Nigeria’s economy by $3bn – British govt
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain has said Nigeria will grow its economy by $3bn through the adequate deployment of geospatial technology. Geospatial technology refers to all of the technology used to acquire, manipulate, and store geographic information. The surveying arm of the United Kingdom further stated that with ...